Local writer Sarah St. John pulls from the Journal-World archives to compile reports of what it was like to be in Lawrence decades ago.
In an audio recording, long-buried among countless others in Library of Congress archives, an animated 1930s radio announcer asks, “Dr. Naismith, how did you happen to invent basketball?”What follows is just more than two minutes of the only known recording of the voice of James Naismith ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 15, 1915:"That everybody reads the Journal-World want page was well known, but there was no evidence that the town dogs kept a watchful eye on the page until yesterday. Mrs. Fred Morris published in the Journal-World a notice that she would ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 14, 1915:"'Torpedoed' by a misjudged charge of dynamite, one of the barges used by the Missouri Valley Bridge company in the construction of the new bridge across the Kaw River, listed to port and sank to the bottom of the river this forenoon. The ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 13, 1915:"There is something wrong with the world, the University seismograph indicates, and Prof. F. E. Kester of the physics department of the University is at a loss to explain it. For two days preceding an earthquake which was recorded ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 12, 1915:"C. R. Young promised the school board that the new buildings would, after many delays, be ready to occupy when the next term of school opens in February.... The dedication of these buildings will be held about January 1. Plymouth ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 11, 1915:"The approach of the interurban line to Lawrence is watched with keen interest by the board of administration of the University.... The board's interest is caused by the possibility of shipping University freight direct to the big state ...